On June 12, the Mashpee Republican Town Committee invited Dr. Roger Kligler to address our membership regarding medical aid in dying, a newly coined moniker for physician-assisted suicide. Dr. Kligler is a local, retired internist and cancer patient. He is currently endorsing the passage of “An...
https://youtu.be/FUKXHzLYZF4 Dr. Tatiana Santos is a young physician who explains that assisted suicide is one of the biggest threats to authentic medicine. Her words of caution are especially poignant given our current profit-driven healthcare system where doctors are put under tremendous pressure for cost containment....
At first I thought I supported assisted suicide. As a member of a peer community of people with lived experience of mental health diagnosis, trauma, and addiction, I passionately believe in self-determination regarding treatment for our physical and mental health. But when I looked more...
A doctor who was accused of murder after helping a patient to die was on Tuesday found not guilty by a court in Muttenz in the canton of Basel-Land. However the doctor was convicted of violating drugs laws and received a 15-month suspended sentence and a...
Stephanie Packer, a mother of four in her mid-30s who lives in California, testified Tuesday, June 25, 2019 while sitting in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube in her nostrils before the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Health about a proposed bill that would...
Euthanasia, assisted suicide, right to die, all ways to describe an issue that's divided the Commonwealth. It was on the ballot in 2012, statewide, voters rejected the measure by the narrowest of measures (51% to 49%)...
Euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Holland and Belgium, as well as a growing number of U.S. states, including California, Colorado and most recently Maine, whose governor signed the Death With Dignity Act last week. New medical guidance in Canada, where the practice...
By Frederick J. White, MD About a year ago, the Washington Post reported on the debate at the American Medical Association regarding physician assisted suicide, and asked whether its longstanding opposition might change. The answer is now in, and the answer is a resounding NO. We are...
Scores of people testified before the Joint Committee on Public Health on the Massachusetts End of Life Options Act...
Suicide is the act of intentionally killing oneself. There is nothing in the definition which changes the meaning depending on why one is performing the act. Indeed, even the highest court in New York, the Court of Appeals, affirmed by a resounding 5-0 decision in Myers...